A repeat offender has confessed to raping and murdering a 15-year-old girl in the eastern French city of Nantes, sparking outrage and calls for tougher release rules. Firefighters found the teenager's body 10 days ago in a burning, empty flat under renovation. The 45-year-old suspect strangled her with a cable, then started the fire to…
Roland Garros Tournament Director Guy Forget is confident most of the globe's top players will make the trip to the French Open this year despite the coronavirus threat. The red dirt Grand Slam has been rescheduled to 27 September to 11 October due to the coronavirus pandemic with the US Open taking place in its…
Former South African President Jacob Zuma appears at the Pietermaritzburg High Court. KIM LUDBROOK / POOL / AFP French arms company Thales says it intends challenging racketeering charges.Representing the company, advocate Barry Roux said they are questioning whether the charges were competently instituted.The company is accused of paying bribes to Zuma for political protection.French arms…
France released StopCovid three weeks ago. The government is holding a press conference today to give an update on the app. In particular, this conference is a good opportunity to share some numbers. Over the past three weeks, 1.9 million people downloaded the app on the App Store or Play Store. Out of those 1.9…
PARIS — Health investigators around the world are racing back in time.While it was thought COVID-19 only began to spread beyond China and across Europe in January and February, French doctors this week said they have established the coronavirus was already present in Paris by late December — a month before the country’s first official…
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Some issues, like immigration or student loans, are too divisive to unite Trinity Moravian Church. “We’ve got quite a spread of political beliefs,” said the Rev. John Jackman, who leads this 114-year-old red-brick church near Winston-Salem’s old textile mills. Conservative Republicans sit with liberal Democrats. Supporters of President Donald Trump mix with
17 min read IT’S APPROACHING 11 A.M. on a humid day in May. Ben Simmons has been out fishing in the waters southeast of Miami since 6:15, his boat pushing away from the marina with a waning crescent still hung in the sky. The 29-year-old has spent most of the morning up on the bow
For companies, choosing not to look is not a defense. It is willful blindness, and juries understand it instantly. Published: June 29, 2026, 12:06 am When I started suing food companies more than thirty years ago, after E. coli O157:H7 in undercooked Jack in the Box hamburgers killed four children and sickened hundreds, proving where